The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

Cannot we let [children] be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make another you. One's enough.

The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

The poor are only they who feel poor.